My grandmother is 92 and she is happy and still going strong. I know she doesn't dream much because she knows I'm into it so she shares a few with me from time to time with little recall. She certainly doesn't lucid dream and never has in her entire life.

So I can say, with empirical data, that proves that dreaming is certainly not evolutionarily necessary to survive.

But of course it's so damn fun! And we can also use it to better ourselves in ways we can't in waking life. But is it mandatory to survive? No. Is it mandatory to be happy? Also, no.

HAGART wrote:My grandmother is 92 and she is happy and still going strong. I know she doesn't dream much because she knows I'm into it so she shares a few with me from time to time with little recall. She certainly doesn't lucid dream and never has in her entire life..